It was the day before Kate's birthday and almost the whole class of 8th std F section,was busy discussing various aspects of the birthday party,instigating Kaat's innocent mind to also yearn for some fun.Kate had used the snackbreak to email her powerpoint invitation to the entire class and the next few hours was filled with the 'oooohs and aaahs' from all the kids,as they browsed through the activities planned.
Before sleeping that night,Kaats muttered to her mom..
"Amma..Do you think we should even bother what other people talk abt us and question us?.."
Indira smiled and retorted.."Not at all kannaa!We haven't done anything to belittle ourselves" and Kaats continued.."Yeah..thats why I feel we both should attend Kate's birthday!My friends are actually so cool!They wouldn't even bother about our stories!"
The theme for Kate's birthday was 'The World today' and various debates,ad-mad shows,JAM ,Dumb-C ,laser tag adventure hunt etc were in the offing,followed by a lip-smacking lunch buffet specially ordered from veteran cricketer-Rahul Dravid's restaurant - 'The wall'!Kate and her friends were supposed to come dressed up in costumes as their favorite world leaders.
Soon,the kids with their world leader nametags started to arrive!Kate was dressed in her mini skirts and was U.S Senator Chelsea Clinton dwelling on the international issue of afforestation in Iraq,while her cousin Akash was dressed like the CM of tamilnadu,Rajinikanth,dwelling on his dream project of 'linking rivers',which was about 50% complete!The kids screamed when they found one of their friends dressed as U.S President Arnold Schwarzenegger!Kaats,who was famous for her Indra Gandhi hairstyle,came in a new white Salwar as the Indian PM Priyanka Gandhi.The talk of the day was the special screening of 'Marudhanayagam',that Kamalahassan had finally succeeded to complete after about 10 years of dilly-dallying.
Upon entering the house,Kaats left her mom in one of the huge guest rooms filled with other moms and dads,to be amidst her friends in the garden.Krithi greeted Indira and offered her a glass of wine,which she reluctantly accepted only to leave it untouched till the end.She then asked ..
"Hey Indira..Kaat's dad busy or what?It'd have been great had he come too!I am sorry I din't personally invite U over the fone."
Indira just smiled at her without any reply.
Krithi's husband Sriram was busy at the garden taking care of the birthday cake arrangement that he was not at all seen anywhere near the guestroom gathering.The sprawling 4000 sq foot bungalaw was in itself a great source of attraction for almost 80% of the crowd,who just barely scraped through the monthly bills,with their software jobs and call centre pays!Some of the ladies had even resorted to selling home-made software/Instant java kind of stuff which involved writing software codes for generic applications catering the banking and credit card industry.While Infosys and microsoft charged in the thousands of $s for these,these 'maami-written' codes called "Maamiwares" were readily available with no strings attached for a couple of hundred bucks on cds.
As soon as all the guests began to leave to the garden for the celebrations,Indira's eyes caught sight of the family portrait in the room.A sudden feeling of shock and guilt struck her as she sat down on the Sofa,unable to gain control over her mind and body!She saw Kaats entering the room in search of her as she exclaimed..
"Hey amma..what r you doing here?cmon lets go to the garden.."
Indira took a deep breath and pulled out of nowhere some false reason as she informed Kaats ...
"Kaats..I am sorry maa..remember ..I told you about the important Dell-AMD joint customer service project??I got a call from them and I have to leave immediately to care of it..!
Gimme a call when the party is done..Ok?Say Krithi aunty that I said sorry"She left the place secretly,leaving Kaats to enjoy with her friends.
To be continued..
-Raapi
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